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Soundarya Rajinikanth seated in a teal armchair in an olive shirt during an interview
Soundarya Rajinikanth, photographed for an interview.
24 November 2025 · Chennai

With Love goes on the floor under Zion Films.

Soundarya Rajinikanth’s new production — the first under Zion Films, the banner she founded in 2025 — was launched in Chennai, made together with MRP Entertainment and produced by Soundarya alongside Pasilian Nazerath and Magesh Raj Pasilian.

Directed by Madhan, the film gives Abishan Jeevinth, the director of Tourist Family, his first lead role, opposite Anaswara Rajan. Sean Roldan composes; Shreyaas Krishna is behind the camera. Rajinikanth released the title teaser, posting: “Wishing my daughter @soundaryaarajni and the entire team of the film #WithLove all the very best. God bless.”

The Hollywood Reporter India

The record

Ten reports, 2008 to 2025.

24 November 2025

With Love launched, starring Abishan Jeevinth and Anaswara Rajan

Soundarya Rajinikanth’s production under Zion Films with MRP Entertainment goes on the floor in Chennai, directed by Madhan, with music by Sean Roldan and cinematography by Shreyaas Krishna.

2025

‘Tourist Family’ director Abishan Jeevinth to lead Soundarya Rajinikanth’s next production

The casting announcement for the Zion Films production, giving the Tourist Family filmmaker his first role as a solo lead.

29 August 2025

Soundarya Rajinikanth and MRP Entertainment join hands

The production partnership between Soundarya’s new banner and MRP Entertainment is announced, ahead of the film that would become With Love.

19 March 2024

Soundarya Rajinikanth forays into OTT with Prime Video series ‘Gangs — Kuruthi Punal’

May6 Entertainment’s first original series — a 1970s-set period action drama directed by Noah, with Ashok Selvan, Nimisha Sajayan and Nassar, and Soundarya as creative producer.

Source

The Week
November 2021

App Friday: voice-based multilingual app Hoote is here

A review of the platform’s sixty-second voice-note format and its multilingual ambitions, shortly after launch.

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YourStory
25 October 2021

Rajinikanth launches daughter Soundarya’s voice-based social media platform

Hoote is launched in Chennai, announced as the first voice-based social networking platform from India and planned for fifteen Indian and ten international languages.

11 August 2017

Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 released in Tamil

Soundarya’s second film as director opens, with Dhanush and Kajol; Hindi and Telugu versions follow later the same month.

2014

NDTV Indian of the Year — Technical Innovation in Film

Soundarya Rajinikanth is honoured for bringing India its first photorealistic motion-capture feature with Kochadaiiyaan.

23 May 2014

Kochadaiiyaan released worldwide in six languages

Her directorial debut opens in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi and Punjabi, across more than three thousand overseas screens.

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Kochadaiiyaan
2008

Warner Bros. signs a multi-picture deal with India’s Ocher Studios

The Chennai visual-effects house Soundarya founded in 2005 partners with Warner Bros. Entertainment on producing and distributing Tamil films.

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Public appearances

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Film launches, press meets and official engagements, photographed across the past decade in Chennai and beyond.

Soundarya Rajinikanth presenting a bouquet of flowers alongside a colleague during an official meeting
An official meeting in Chennai.
Soundarya Rajinikanth in a maroon blazer at a press event
At a film press event.
Soundarya Rajinikanth in a navy floral kurta at a film event in front of a printed backdrop
At a recent film event.

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